How to Automatically Create a Jira Release from a CI Pipeline Deployment?

[Souhail Marghabi]

hello everyone,

I'm currently facing a challenge integrating Jira with our deployment process and would appreciate any insights or guidance you can provide.

Context: We have a continuous deployment pipeline set up in GitLab. When a new app version is deployed to the app stores, our pipeline automatically creates a tag commit in GitLab to mark the deployment.

Challenge: I want to streamline our process by automatically creating a corresponding release in Jira that aligns with the deployed version tagged in GitLab. However, I'm not sure how to set this up using Jira automation.

Specifics:

• The pipeline in GitLab deploys the app and tags the commit with the version number.
• I need to create a Jira release that matches this version number each time a deployment is made.

Questions:

1. Is there a way to set up Jira automation to detect when a new tag is created in GitLab and subsequently create a Jira release with the same version number?
2. Are there any specific Jira integrations or plugins that facilitate this kind of automation with GitLab?
3. If anyone has implemented a similar workflow, could you share your approach or any scripts that might be helpful?

I'm looking for a solution that minimizes manual intervention and ensures our Jira releases are always in sync with our actual deployments.

Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions!

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

• From GitLab, Send a webhook to Jira once deployment is successful with your version number in payload.
• Within Jira, set up a rule which listens to incoming webhook and creates new version with the version number you sent.

I am hoping there are more steps than creating a version in Jira, like associating issues to it or releasing the version etc.. 

[Kalyan Sattaluri]

for cloud, please see here if you need info on how to get Jira token for auth/authz.

for data center, see here